5 Sites To Find Free Alternatives To Popular Software

And sometimes there are software you find irksome and think things could have been better. In any case, I always like to try out a few alternative software choices before I settle with any particular application mainly for two reasons: One, you would never know how good or bad the one you are using is until you try some alternatives and two: a bit of choice and competition can only be for the good of us users! Your motivation might be different: perhaps you want to find a free software that does the same task as the paid software you are using or maybe your favorite Windows application is not available on Mac or Linux.

Add current date and time in vim

Last few days I was quite busy. So this time very quick tip 🙂

Add the following to the ~/.vimrc file

imap dt :r! dateA

And now whenever you type dt in the insert mode in vi, date will be inserted.

Multiple search in vim

I was looking at a log file and needed to highlight multiple search items to make the logs more readable. I got into multiple threads suggesting various cryptic vim commands but I was in no mood to remember them. So, I finally hit <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=479" target="_blank">this.

This is a cool vim script which you can use to highlight multiple search patter. You can simply add a search term by doing

Calculations

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/perl-one-liners.jpg" alt="Perl One Liners" align="bottom" />This is the third part of a seven-part article on famous Perl one-liners. In this part I will create various one-liners for calculations. See <a href="http://www.catonmat.net/blog/perl-one-liners-explained-part-one/">part one for introduction of the series.

Famous Perl one-liners is my attempt to create “perl1line.txt” that is similar to “<a href="http://www.catonmat.net/blog/awk-one-liners-explained-part-one/">awk1line.txt” and “<a href="http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-one/">sed1line.txt” that have been so popular among Awk and Sed programmers.

The article on famous Perl one-liners will consist of at least seven parts:

bash colors

For those of the terminal freaks, color is a bliss. But have you tried all the colors in the terminal. Today someone forwarded me a bash one liner for the same. Not sure where he got this from, anyway here is the one liner for you all:

chatting with your friends when all chat sites are blocked.

You can use, <a href="http://chat.aka-photo.com/">http://chat.aka-photo.com/.
I just installed it to keep my self connected with the other friends of mine. Does not store the data for long and no need to create a username if you dont want to .. just enter any name in the username and press enter. Ask the other person to join the same room and that&#8217;s it.

Oh, BTW, I bought this domain to lauch another <a href="http://eshop.aka-photos.com">e-shop or at <a href="http://shop.aka-photos.com">shop. Aha, do let me know which one looks better.

No sound on Fedora 11 Leonidas – resolved.

I have been trying to get the sound working on the F11 install that I had. Searched all the sites and blogs I could find. Nothing seemed to be working.

Finally I did a

alsactl init

and WOW, I have got my sound. Worht a try if you too are having issues with sound.